-The Hindu Landslides kill 49 in Raigad; rescue efforts hampered. At least 60 persons have lost their lives in landslides triggered by intense rain in western Maharashtra and the coastal Konkan region as monsoon fury continued unabated over the region on Friday. While the entire State, including the normally arid Marathwada and Vidarbha regions, have been receiving particularly heavy showers over the last 72 hours, the situation remained particularly grim in the Mahad...
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Ratnagiri Dam breach toll 18, questions raised about possible negligence -Sushant Kulkarni
-The Indian Express The Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly has also demanded that a case be registered against local Shiv Sena MLA Sadanand Chavan, who was closely associated with the firm Khemraj Constructions, which had built the dam in 2004. With the death toll in the floods caused by a breach in the Tiware dam in Ratnagiri’s Chiplun rising to 18, questions are being raised about possible negligence on the part...
More »Freak weather may hit kharif crop too: Experts
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Changiram, a farmer from Kota's Darbheeji village, had sown his four-hectare land with wheat, investing around Rs 80,000 in seeds, fertilizers and labour. He expected to earn around Rs 4 lakh. But unseasonal rains and hailstorms in March damaged more than 70% of his crop, leaving him insolvent and staring at a bleak future. Changiram's plight mirrors that of tens of thousands of farmers across the...
More »Shiv Sena takes on its own government -Alok Deshpande
-The Hindu Ratnagiri (Maharashtra): The Shiv Sena held a protest march here on Thursday outside the office of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), which is implementing the proposed 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP). Despite being a part of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition at the Centre and in the State, the Sena has repeatedly said that it would not let the project go ahead as long as...
More »Most power plants in India falter on green regulation: CSE
-Business Standard On the basis of resource-efficiency, pollution and compliance, state-owned power generation firms fare the worst A staggering 90 per cent of coal-based thermal power plants in India fare unsatisfactorily on the environmental front, shows a recent analysis. While state-owned power generation companies are among the worst performers, plants owned by private firms have performed better on environmental and energy parameters. In a report released by the Centre for Science...
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